Bill James Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.”

“Our society is very, very good at developing certain types of skills and certain types of genius. We are fantastically good at identifying and developing athletic skills - better than we are, really, at almost anything else. We are quite good at developing and rewarding inventiveness.”

“The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.”

“I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.”

“Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.”

“It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.”

“Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.”

“Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.”

“Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.”

“I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.”